It was no coincidence that the Snake Person forces led by the Snake Person King would run into the vanguard troops rushing to reinforce them.
They were on their way to Stronghold No. 3, after all.
Unless they took a detour, they were bound to run into each other!
That outcome had already been sealed when the Snake Person King misjudged the situation last night.
Could this not also be considered walking straight into a trap?
If they had been infantry, they would definitely have waited for the enemy to walk into their trap and launched an ambush.
Unfortunately, Yoseph and the others were cavalry—Centaur cavalry, at that. Every one of them was huge and powerfully built, making it difficult to hide in the desert even if they wanted to.
At the same time, once the Snake People truly reached them, the cavalry would lose its momentum. Fighting the Snake People in a melee in the desert would actually put them at a disadvantage as a unit.
The wisest choice was to calculate the distance and launch a direct charge.
Yoseph, who had just learned the latest situation from the Giant Eagle Knight and learned that all the Snake People had burrowed into the sand, did not care in the slightest. At this point, they had already charged into one another's field of vision.
[High-Speed Charge!]
As the True Word was activated and invisible power spread outward, the charge speed of the Centaur cavalry instantly rose another level.
Meanwhile, the Snake Person King, who had been hiding beneath the sand and secretly observing, had already seen Yoseph and the others clearly. The next moment, his mind went blank.
[No, wait. They're over here, so who was that last night?]
At that moment, the Snake Person King clearly felt that his